People are sneaking answers from AI, and who can blame them? "I nterviews are NOT real anymore." So reads the opening caption of a TikTok posted in September, punctuated by the skull-and-crossbones emoji. She has a smartphone propped up against her laptop screen, so she can read off the responses that an AI app has composed for her: "Um, yeah, so, one of my key strengths is my adaptability." Getting generative artificial intelligence to whisper into your ear during a job interview certainly counts as .

When Ty landed an introductory phone interview with a finance and banking company last month, they assumed it would be a quick chat with a recruiter. And when they got on the phone, Ty assumed the recruiter, who introduced herself as Jaime, was human. "The voice sounded similar to Siri," said Ty, who is 29 and lives in the DC metro area. Ty realized they weren't speaking to a living, breathing person. Their interviewer was an AI system, and one with a rather rude habit.